Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Brittas (duhallow By.), County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Brittas (duhallow By.)
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1936)
- Coordinates
- 52.10532, -8.76368
- SMR number
- CO032-079----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, below top of ridge on NE-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842, 1905 and 1936 OS 6-inch maps; external fosse hachured to E, S and W on 1936 OS 6-inch map. No visible surface trace of site; according to local information, levelled c. 1967. Recorded by Bowman (1934, 584) as triple-ramparted fort (diam. c. 32yd) in 'Lisin Ruadh' subdivision on F. Roche's land; banks 4 to 7ft H, with about half of middle rampart and one-sixth of outer rampart remaining. Possible souterrain (CO032-212---) in interior.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- House - vernacular houseunder 1 mi
- Churchunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.